A book-length version, Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object, was published by University of Arkansas Press in 2009. Rooney was named one of the Best New Voices of 2006 by Random House, which included her essay 'Live Nude Girl' in their influential anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. Her first poetry collection, Oneiromance won the 2007 Gatewood Prize from feminist publisher Switchback Books. Rooney's first book, Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America, an in-depth analysis of the cultural and literary impacts of Oprah's Book Club, was published by University of Arkansas Press in 2005 and reissued in 2008. While at Emerson, she was awarded a 2003 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College.

from the George Washington University and an M.F.A. She was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest.

Kathleen Rooney is an American writer, publisher, editor, and educator.

Education-B.A., George Washington University M.A., Emerson College.

For now, after all, the night is still young. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed-and has not.Ī love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now-her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl-but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.” Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H.

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